Case Study Competitive advantage at Louis Vuitton and Gucci MEMO The market of high fashion luxury goods presents US$165 billion of annual sales and gross profit margins of over 50 per cent. The leader company seems to be LVMH fashion house, with US$12billion of sales, followed by Richemont with US$3.6 billion and Gucci Group with US$2.4 billion. According to the text, the key activity of those companies is the preparation and display of new collection for their bi-annual fashion show. Analysing
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The Heroic Mind of Galileo Galilei As a heroic mastermind, Galileo Galilei, born February 15. 2015 grew up living in Pisa. Italy. Growing up Galileo lived with his parents Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati, as he up his intelligence widen forward into the subject of Mathematics. As he grew up he attended a university in Pisa, Italy. Stretching out his heroic abilities, he ran into ideas that he knew no one could possibly believe but never that of these plans before. Galileo Galilei is a
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The Renaissance, which start in the 14th century of Italy. The Renaissacnce is the idea of focus in art, literature and science, is a new born for education after the dark ages. At this time, people practice the study of Humanism and spread the thoughts of the importance of education. Starting in Italy and spread to Spain in the 15th century later on. During this time, many great ruler existed. Queen Isabella I, or Isabella of Castile, she was one of the legendary Queen in Spain, not only because
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Cesare Bonesana, Marquis of Beccaria was born in Milan Italy on March 15th 1738 (Monachesi, 1956). Both his father and mother were members of the aristocracy and amongst his ancestors were persons who had achieved distinction in various fields of endeavor (Monachesi, 1956). In 1760 Beccaria extended his family by proposing to Teresa Blasco. Teresa was just 16 years old, and her father strongly objected to the engagement. A year later, the couple eloped. In 1762 they welcomed a baby girl, the
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I chose to do my research on Brunelleschi’s dome on the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, Italy because I am fascinated by the subject “humanities” and love to learn about famous architecture, sculpture and art. Filippo Brunelleschi was a talented architect who took on the challenge to build a self-supporting dome larger than the Pantheon (built in ancient Rome). For thousands of years no one was able to accomplish this feat, so Brunelleschi took on the challenge and, between 1420 and
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was born near Val di Greve, the year of 1485. His parents are Piero Andrea di Bernardo da Verrazzano, and Fiammetta Cappelli. Giovanni da Verrazzano had one sibling which is Girolamo da Verrazzano. As a young boy, Giovanni Da Verrazzano studied in Florence, Italy, and was well-educated and excelled in math. Around 1506 Giovanni da Verrazzano began pursuing his maritime career. Giovanni also discovered New York Harbor, in 1528, which now has a bridge spanning it named after Giovanni da Verrazzano.
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How did the Renaissance Change Man's View of the World? In the 1400's the Middle Ages had ended and the began Renaissance. The word "Renaissance", means rebirth or revival". During the Renaissance, people of all cultural groups started to use their unique skills to better perform their trait and as a way of understanding innovative forms of politics, social reforms, and thinking. A movement called humanism developed, which praised the beauty and intelligence of the individual. Man had stated to
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Did you know that there was 574 letters between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning? Different events happen in every person’s life. Since those events change people, they begin to see or do things differently. Elizabeth Browning was an example of this. The major events in Elizabeth’s life began to greatly influence her poetry. One event that influenced Elizabeth’s poetry was illness. For example, Alicia Kim writes, “During these years in London, however, her ill health worsened, forcing
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THE LIFE AND DEATH AND FAMOUS WORKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI Nathan Grissom History 101 Western Civilization to Antiquity-1650 April 16th, 2017 The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci was born on Saturday April 15th in 1452 at three in the morning in Vinci, Italy. It would be 10:30 PM in today’s time. Da Vinci was known as a renaissance man who had a curious mind and his intellect was high. He was raised in a farmhouse near the hills of Tuscany. He was raised by his
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Religious and cultural upheaval brought many changes during the 16th-century that let to High Renaissance. During this period the High Renaissance art, flourished for about 35 years and revolved around three important figures: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. Leonardo da Vinci was an innovative artist, centuries ahead of time, who dramatically changed art history. One of his greatest masterpieces is the “Madonna of the Rocks,” which he started painting in 1483. In this painting,
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